Posted on 03/20/2026 6:00:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In 2005, anti-liberty/gun cracktivists were having a hard time. They were losing at the ballot box and having little luck disarming the American public in state legislatures and the Congress. The public had long ago caught on to their common and never-ending lies, so they hit on a new strategy: lawfare. They would sue gun manufacturers for the third party, illegal and negligent acts of others who misused their lawful products. Sure, that flew in the face of basic principles of tort law—you can’t sue people for the acts of others about which they have no knowledge or ability to control—but GUNS!
Gun makers, compared to many other industries, make modest profits. The anti-gun strategy was to overwhelm them with so many lawsuits they’d be bankrupted, and it could have worked.
That year, Congress, by a broad and genuinely bipartisan margin, enacted the Protection of Lawful Commerce In Arms Act, the PLCAA, which is supposed to stop lawsuits against gun and ammo companies for the criminal misuse of their lawful, non-defective products. Even so, some leftist activist judges have allowed lawsuits that plainly violate the PLCAA and at the behest of his handlers, Joe Biden constantly claimed gun and ammo makers enjoyed immunity from lawsuits others did not.
That was a lie.
Covid vaccine makers, for example, were given total immunity. As with every industry, gun and ammo manufacturers may be sued for negligence, making faulty products or violating the law.
Now, anti-liberty/gun cracktivists have hit on another lawfare strategy:
The strategy is to enact what civilian disarmament advocates term “firearm industry responsibility” laws in anti-gun states. These laws impose a duty on members of the firearms industry to institute “reasonable controls” over the sale and distribution of their products
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It seems that the PLCAA needs to have prison penalties added.
In addition to being a liar, Joe Biden is also a traitor to the United States of America.
So let’s assume the Leftists succeed in disarming all law abiding citizens of their guns. What happens next? Why the gun smugglers will just flood our border with guns. And I’m sure the government will be just as successful at curbing that as they were at preventing illegal aliens or illegal drugs from crossing the borders ... oh, wait ... I guess only gangbangers, criminals or illegal aliens will still have their guns.
The communists never stop, until they are stopped!
When the Left decides to enforce the law, they do it like 3rd world despots. Jail without bond, huge sentences, willing judges, putting political opponents in prison. They are basically installing martial law.
Jan 6 was a lesson to be taught to us.
In these cases, the process is the punishment - enough phony lawsuits are thrown at businesses, corporations or individuals the left don’t like with the purpose of tying them up in court for years and bankrupting them with long, drawn out, repeated lawsuits.
We have seen what happens next. Venezuela and Iran provide worked examples.
Criminal gangs are organized by the government into militias and given weapons. The militias are used to terrorize the law-abiding (and disarmed) citizens so they will obey all government orders. The most stubborn opponents of the government are hunted down and killed by the militia.
It is an unbreakable system, until some outside power comes in and breaks it.
The democrats have been trying to ban guns since 1934.
Began to make a big push against handguns in 1962,
made a grab for rifles in 1984,
Still trying to ban ANYTHING they can. Some of us kept lists.
The lies we have been told over the years...
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns.” Rifles will not be affected!”
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! “ Rifles will not be affected!”
1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America (ABC) screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984, they came for the rifles.
1988,Josh Sugarmann, of the National Council to Ban Handguns tells how to ban rifles.
“Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over
fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons
—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine
gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on
these weapons.”
– Josh Sugarmann
Gun owners now know that any time we negotiate with those who want to ban guns, we are up against a stacked deck.
The rat Communist USA party needs to be dealt with...big time.
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